Thread: Task of the Month for February 2014

Haha that happens to me a lot. I'll have a nonlucid with some TOTM elements in it, or I'll straight up do the TOTM in a nonlucid. So facepalm.

Ooh I just had a sort of lucid and I know my dc's soul mate is one of the innocents the main baddie wants to kill. I'm thinking about her too... Eh, I'll just ask "Was I right?" this night. Also I get so frustrated with my lack of control I always forget about totm.

I think I'll rip my heart out with joy if I have a lucid tonight.

Well done Stinky! That is so awesome! It must be exhilirating to have such control. I can't wait until I get to the point where I have results like that. I am almost to the 2 month point and not having a ton of success yet, only about one LD a month, but I try to focus on the fact that prior to this recent effort, my last LD was when I was 8 years old, so slow as it may be, it is still progress so I am staying positive.
Well done.
Cheers

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

Haha that happens to me a lot. I'll have a nonlucid with some TOTM elements in it, or I'll straight up do the TOTM in a nonlucid. So facepalm.

Hmmph.. I do most of the tasks in non-lucids and don't realize it until I look at the tasks again, I have to look every night or forget them..
And im in a real lurch here, I cannot for the life of me remember a dog biscuit and every time I try to fix a zombie I end up breaking it....

PS: Will the real OB please stand up... That avatar is awful.....

Originally Posted by woblybil

PS: Will the real OB please stand up... That avatar is awful.....

Petition, anyone? Let's channel our righteous frustration into some convincing clicktivism! This cannot be allowed to go on!

That avatar is here to stay so better get used to it! Also he has ESP.. look into his eyessszzzzzz.....

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

That avatar is here to stay so better get used to it! Also he has ESP.. look into his eyessszzzzzz.....

I guess this means I have proven beyond any doubt that there is still life in the thread :

I should know better to get frustrated with failed attempts on regular mornings when I'm not able to relax. Knowing I could sleep in on my day off, I managed to have not one but two lucid dreams tackling two tasks.

First one:

I wonder what I'll find when I turn around, and what I see is Michael Fassbender… The first thing that comes to mind is that I want to give him my heart. How romantic, right? I try to reach into my chest. It's like there's a gap where I can get my hand through, but then I hit a bony plate halfway in that stops me from reaching my heart. I try to think of another way to get my heart out, including the possibility of reaching down through my throat. This is pretty gory stuff, actually. Not what I was thinking about when I set out on this task. I look over Michael's shoulder and there is Benedict Cumberbatch, all dressed up in his tux like he's going to some awards show. And as I look at him, my heart just floats out of my chest and into my hands. It's a large heart-shaped ruby that seems to be glowing. I give it to Benedict and he cradles it in his hands as he promises he'll take good care of it.

There was a noise that woke me up at just the wrong moment. When I went right back to sleep, I had the second lucid dream:

I look at my hands to stabilize the dream, but my hands start flipping up and down, faster and faster until they're beating like a pair of hummingbird wings. The store disappears and I see a mountain appear, the same mountain that has shown up in a few previous dreams. I start to fly up towards the top but think to myself, "No, wait, I was supposed to do something else."

Returning to the ground, I see my coworker Kathy. I've noticed that she turns up in a lot of my dreams, hanging out with my friends even though we barely speak to each other at work. I walk up to her and ask why she keeps showing up in these dreams. She tells me, "Because I represent the possibility. I represent what you could be if you would just open up and try harder." I'm not quite sure I'm satisfied with her answer, but I consider it for a moment. Then I decide to try something. I step into Kathy's body to see what it's like to be her. The mountain appears again, this time completely covered with snow. I remember the bonus task of the month and find myself on skis. I've never really skied before, so it takes me a little while to figure out how to start skiing up the mountain. I settle into a sort of cross-country skiing up the steep incline. I do have to pull myself along at times, but I make it to the top, where there's a flat ledge. Kathy is waiting up at the top and tells me that I did a great job.

Originally Posted by Thena

I should know better to get frustrated with failed attempts on regular mornings when I'm not able to relax. Knowing I could sleep in on my day off, I managed to have not one but two lucid dreams tackling two tasks.

First one:

Holy crap, I also dreamed about Benedict Cumberbatch last night. I wasn't lucid though. He just approached me on my daily commute and gave me this profound message. How the hell that didn't end up triggering lucidity I'll never know.

Now I want a Benedict Cumberpatch dream toooooo. Could incorporate his voice into the TOTY where you have to defeat Smaug.

Maybe include him in the next totm?

No.

Originally Posted by woblybil

Hmmph.. I do most of the tasks in non-lucids and don't realize it until I look at the tasks again, I have to look every night or forget them..
And im in a real lurch here, I cannot for the life of me remember a dog biscuit and every time I try to fix a zombie I end up breaking it....

PS: Will the real OB please stand up... That avatar is awful.....

That sounds so sweet - breaking a zombie - like breaking a cherished figurine or something - they really broke apart?
Makes sense, lubbery gore on feet - brrrr.
Agreed on the avatar!!
And no Cumberpatches either please!

Originally Posted by StephL

That sounds so sweet - breaking a zombie - like breaking a cherished figurine or something - they really broke apart?
Makes sense, lubbery gore on feet - brrrr.
Agreed on the avatar!!
And no Cumberpatches either please!

Yeah, Ever notice when you hit a human with a baseball bat they don't splatter so ?

Giving credit where it's due.... I too put a picture of an intended victim DC where I will see it most, Like right now "Miranda Lawson" (Mass Effect video game) is my desktop background, If one proves unproductive for too long I just give her the boot and find another..

^^I like that idea of incubating through a desktop background. Ophelia, your eyes were so much nicer before! His eyes look kind of small, but I bet it is just the eye lids and his eye balls are actually huge! haha Okay, I need to get back to the true love question...the weekend is my prime time...so let's do this!

I have rotating desktop background with various dream themes. A large version of my avatar, 4 or 5 other dreamy images, and then an incubation image. No luck so far, though.

Originally Posted by Sibyline

I have rotating desktop background with various dream themes. A large version of my avatar, 4 or 5 other dreamy images, and then an incubation image. No luck so far, though.

I have tried a slideshow background with more than one girl and end up with none, Or if I even change too often without giving it a chance same thing happens, At the height of idiocy I tried several girls and wound up recalling a slideshow of girls flashing past that I couldn't make stand still..
Best results for me are a week or more with one. (And it works too)
I have loads of other DC traps too...

Well, I tried one for several months, both on my PC and on my phone, but nothing ever happened, so that's why I decided to sandwich it in between things that are just about dreaming.

Wings! Wings! Wings! I did it! At long long long last I completed a TOTM! Today is exactly the 6-month anniversary of my start down the path of lucid dreaming practice! What better way to celebrate than some pretty interesting dreams and a late morning lucid! Argh, only a few days left in Feb, but wings nonetheless!

Originally Posted by TOTM basic task

I'm walking through a park, I'm following some children through a doorway, I turn to the left, there's another doorway right there, I see some adults I "know" are the parents of one of the kids, the father to the left, the mother wearing a white t-shirt to the right. I pass through the door, become lucid and bring the mother along with me. I have to "fight" my way in to clear lucidity. I feel a bit out of control/dizzy but I fight the "I'm lucid! Run!" urge and remember to rub my hands and things calm down. Instead of diving right in I decide to have a conversation with the mother DC. She's about 30 and cute, short hair. I keep her at arms length and maintain eye contact. I'm slowly moving around the playground, see it in my peripheral vision, slowly spinning/turning, rubbing my hands all the while, and rubbing my fingers against my palms, always in motion, like I've planned before instead of just keeping my feet planted. She stays right in front of me with eye contact at arms length. It successfully kept the dream going. I smile and enter a conversation while doing this:

Me: "My name is (real name), what's yours?"
DC: "Susannah."
Me: "Susannah, who is your true love? Your soulmate?"
DC: (looks confused)
Me: "Who is your soulmate?"
DC: (hesitant) "My husband"

Me: (WOOHOO did the TOTM!)

I've held off lecherous-dream-me for about as long as I can with an available female DC on hand.

Spoiler for Bad behavior starts here:

Me: (Giving her "that look" ) "Have you ever kissed another man?"
Me: (two-handed chest grab extending my arms out in front of me)
Me: "You have great (ahem)'s"

Dream slowly fades. No! I'm perfectly still and remain partially in body-buzzing-sleep-land...feel like I could make it back in if I really try..but it's late in the morning, and I want to record, so I let it go. W00T! Wings!

Nice! Weren't you supposed to ask her who your soulmate was, though?

Originally Posted by Sibyline

Nice! Weren't you supposed to ask her who your soulmate was, though?

Geez what a buzz kill.
I thought for sure I saw others asking DCs here and practiced it that way but the thread top does agree with you.
Guess I'll leave it up to Ophelia

Originally Posted by FryingMan

Geez what a buzz kill.
I thought for sure I saw others asking DCs here and practiced it that way but the thread top does agree with you.
Guess I'll leave it up to Ophelia

Well, TOTM are here to provide us with motivation for our LDing practices and help us learn to accomplish goals we set IWL in our dreams. You did accomplish the goal you set for yourself, even if it was not 100% the official TOTM, so my congratulations for that! And it was pretty close anyways!

You know, after rereading the task, I can see how it could be read as: ask a DC "who your soulmate is?"

Which is how my coworker from New Orleans asks someone for the time "What time it is?" Haha